The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Twin Cities Area
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown